Coeur d'Alene city attorney Mike Gridley says the campaign finance law that Sen. Mike Jorgenson may have violated when he ran a $1,090 ad for Coeur d'Alene city council challenger Jim Brannon is a state law, not a city ordinance. Idaho Code 67-6610A limits contributions…
Sen. Mike Jorgenson, R-Hayden Lake, says he didn't mean to violate campaign finance laws when he placed an ad for Coeur d'Alene City Council challenger Jim Brannon, and he's working with Coeur d'Alene City Clerk Susan Weathers to clear the matter up. "I was just…
It was a little surprising to get a media advisory today that Idaho GOP Chairman Norm Semanko will hold a press conference call tomorrow morning "to discuss the 2009 elections and what they mean for Idaho in 2010," because Idaho's 2009 elections - today is…
This past summer saw a big jump in participation in Idaho libraries' summer reading programs for kids, which registered 63,300 children, 38 percent more than 2008. "Every year we hope to see the numbers of children being reached by these valuable programs increase, but we…
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